Family information

History

Source Code Pro was designed by Paul D. Hunt as a companion to Source Sans. This complementary family was adapted from the Source design to create a monospaced version for coding applications. Source Code preserves the design features and vertical proportions of Source Sans, but alters the glyph widths so that they are uniform across all glyphs and weights. Although a regular weight will typically suffice for coding environments, Source Code is available in the same weight range as the corresponding Source Sans design.

Source Code Pro currently supports a wide range of languages using the Latin script. The latest release adds support for Greek and Cyrillic scripts (upright fonts only) and italics.

As an open source project, it is expected that incremental updates will be made over time to extend functionality. Future releases will add other features documented on the project page hosted on GitHub. If you are interested in contributing to this open source project, please visit this project page for information on how to become involved. Source Code Pro can be adapted and redistributed according to the terms of the Open Font License (OFL) agreement.

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:

Source Code Pro

Source Code Pro Black

Source Code Pro ExtraLight

Source Code Pro Light

Source Code Pro Semibold

Menu Name

plus Style Option

select this font

Source Code Pro

[none]

Source Code Pro Regular

Source Code Pro

Italic

Source Code Pro Italic

Source Code Pro

Bold

Source Code Pro Bold

Source Code Pro

Bold Italic

Source Code Pro Bold Italic

Source Code Pro Black

[none]

Source Code Pro Black

Source Code Pro Black

Italic

Source Code Pro Black Italic

Source Code Pro ExtraLight

[none]

Source Code Pro ExtraLight

Source Code Pro ExtraLight

Italic

Source Code Pro ExtraLight Italic

Source Code Pro Light

[none]

Source Code Pro Light

Source Code Pro Light

Italic

Source Code Pro Light Italic

Source Code Pro Medium

[none]

Source Code Pro Medium

Source Code Pro Medium

Italic

Source Code Pro Medium Italic

Source Code Pro SemiBold

[none]

Source Code Pro SemiBold

Source Code Pro SemiBold

Italic

Source Code Pro SemiBold Italic

On the Mac OS operating system, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows applications) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft Word, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign software.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

Release Notes

For all fonts of family Source Code Pro: versions 2.010 Romans and 1.030 Italics created on Tue Jul 07 10:54:46 2015.